Blog it!

I loved this chapter. As a future educator I think it is so important to stay in touch with what students are doing outside the classroom and how it can be brought into the classroom to relate to them and that right now is through technology. I mean look at one of Kajder's first topics-blogs. I think that we should have a classroom blog along with our individual blogs, to help share more ideas with classmates. And even though we do not all share the same teaching area-math, English, science, history-I think that we can all learn from each other and the difference of teaching each subject. But anyways, the idea of having a classroom blog where there is more than just words is exciting, bringing in videos, pictures, outside sources and even comments from those who are not even in the class brings all sorts of new perspectives to students. Podcasting and book trailers sound like a good medium for students who are more artistically or communicationlly inclined. The wiki page is something I want to utilize in the classroom, it sounds like a great way to really dig deeper into a novel or play, and it might even be fun. The only problem with all of these ideas is that they are definitely geared towards English classes. I can see how social sciences might be able to get their foot in the door, and I am interested how math and sciences can apply these tools to their teaching methods.